Design of a Flintlock, Side Plate, Butt Plate, and Trigger Guard, unnumbered plate from Nouveaux Desseins d'Arquebuserie Inventez et Gravez par Le Sr. Gillot

Engraver Claude Gillot French

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Claude Gillot is often remembered as an influential teacher of the famous painter Antoine Watteau. A highly accomplished painter, draughtsman and engraver himself, Gillot is noted for his lively and inventive style, free from academic restraint. This print is one of a series of eight sheets of original designs for firearms ornament created by Gillot in the Régence or French Regency style.

Design of a Flintlock, Side Plate, Butt Plate, and Trigger Guard, unnumbered plate from Nouveaux Desseins d'Arquebuserie Inventez et Gravez par Le Sr. Gillot, Claude Gillot (French, Langres 1673–1722 Paris), Etching, engraving, French, Paris

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